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18031	Maxwell, Donald	A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden			.txt	text/plain	23010	1329	78	AN OLD WORLD CRAFT: A TYPE OF BOAT UNCHANGED SINCE THE DAYS OF "BY BAGHDAD'S SHRINES OF FRETTED GOLD, HIGH-WALLED GARDENS, GREEN [Illustration: "A mysterious-looking furnace tower."] An old-world touch is given to the waters of Basra by the high-sterned steamer proceeding up-river may be kicking up a great fuss in the water Great buildings like Ctesiphon near Baghdad or traces of the vast [Illustration: AN OLD WORLD CRAFT, A TYPE OF BOAT UNCHANGED SINCE THE Very little of the Baghdad as we know it to-day is old. run two great rivers, bare but for the palm trees on their banks and pictured myself making my way across the river in a goufa or bellam and Of the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, the banks of the on hill and dale and plain." In irrigation lands like Mesopotamia it is watered the garden where the land was green and good.	./cache/18031.txt	./txt/18031.txt